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Re:Sustaining git-annex development by zeckalpha on Sunday July 14, 2013 @11:29PM (#6043528)
How does git-annex compare to bittorrent-sync?

(I'm a big fan of Joey's other work, so I bet this is top notch, there just seems to be more momentum behind bittorrent-sync.)

Re:Sustaining git-annex development by joeyh on Monday July 15, 2013 @01:42AM (#6043916)
Use cases overlap partially, but are generally quite distinct.

I think they could potentially complement one another, especially if bittorrent-sync used an open protocol, so I could adapt one of the haskell bittorrent clients (which seem to make excellent use of haskell's concurrency from what I've read) to use it.

Re:Sustaining git-annex development by muuck on Sunday July 14, 2013 @11:47PM (#6043596)
I like git-annex better. Because git-annex doesn't automatic keep copies of the files in all the directories you've shared. When you need a file that's not in your local directory you can just pull it from a different place, git-annex keeps track where the file is stored.
Re:Sustaining git-annex development by computer on Sunday July 14, 2013 @11:32PM (#6043544)
bittorrent-sync is closed source.
Re:Sustaining git-annex development by zeckalpha on Sunday July 14, 2013 @11:34PM (#6043549)
I can't believe I missed that. Thanks!